Theater of Lockdown

Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic

AvBarbara Fuchs,William C. Boles

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del i serien Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances

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Offering one of the first scholarly examinations of digital and distanced performance since the global shutdown of theaters in March 2020, Barbara Fuchs provides both a record of the changes and a framework for thinking through theater's transformation.Though born of necessity, recent productions offer a new world of practice, from multi-platform plays on Zoom, WhatsApp, and Instagram, to enhancement via filters and augmented reality, to urban distanced theater that enlivens streetscapes and building courtyards. Based largely outside the commercial theater, these productions transcend geographic and financial barriers to access new audiences, while offering a lifeline to artists. This study charts how virtual theater puts pressure on existing assumptions and definitions, transforming the conditions of both theater-making and viewership. How are participatory, site-specific, or devised theater altered under physical-distancing requirements? How do digital productions blur the line between film and theater? What does liveness mean in a time of pandemic?In its seven chapters, Theater of Lockdown focuses on digital and distanced productions from the Americas, Europe, and Australia, offering scholarly analysis and interviews. Productions examined include Theater in Quarantine’s “closet work” in New York; Forced Entertainment’s (Sheffield, UK), End Meeting for All, I, II, and III; the work of Madrid-based company Grumelot; and the virtuosic showmanship of EFE Tres in Mexico City.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-10-07
Mått:138 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:435 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350231825

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Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English at UCLA, USA, where she also directs the Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance and its Diversifying the Classics project (http://diversifyingtheclassics.humanities.ucla.edu/). In 2013, she launched the Golden Tongues initiative, which adapts Hispanic classical theater to contemporary Los Angeles. She also directs LA ESCENA, Los Angeles’ first festival of Hispanic classical theater, founded in 2018. Recent scholarly projects include Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World (2021); a collaborative translation of Ana Caro's The Courage to Right a Woman's Wrongs (2021); and 90 Monologues from Classical Spanish Theater, with Jennifer Monti and Laura Muñoz (2018).

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This book will appeal to students studying intermedial, multimedia, and online theatre, whilst also providing an excellent introduction to the discourses of liveness and computation in performance … Theatre and film scholars will also find it useful to discover new artists and companies who are experimenting with Internet dramaturgies and online interaction.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Straight to Zoom: Theater Moves Online2. Bending the Rules: Experimenting with Zoom3. Thinking outside the Box: Multiplatform4. Thinking outside the Box: Simulation5. Solo: Small-Scale Theater6. Audio Theater, from Telephones to Podcasts7. Distanced Theater: Reinhabiting the City and BeyondPostscriptAppendix: List of WorksNotesIndex